Improvement in hand-washing rubbers



'tth' ttttca Hunt Letters Patent No. 111,769, aatedrebruary 14,1811.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-WASHING RUBBERS.

The Schedule referred to' in these LetteraPatent and making of the une.

I, ELwooD Noam', ot' McDonough, in the county of' New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a Hand-Washing Rubber, oi' which the following is a specifica-tion.

The nature ot' my invention consists ot' a device to be held by hand, having one or more rollers, the journals of which worh in the ends of a trough-thrilled holder, the inner or trough surface serving for scooping up the suds or water towet the clothes during the rubbing process when desired.

.I make the 'holder of wood vor metal, or partly of each. lVhen the ends are made of wood 1 usually bush vthe journal-bearings with metal or other suitable nniterlal.

To enable others to make and use my device, 1' will now give a detailed description thereof.

In the accompanying drawing, which makes a part of this specification- Figure 1 is a plan of the device.

Figure 2 is an end view.

Figure is a cross-section at thc line a: x of' fig. 1.

Figure 4 is an end view ot'a tinted roller.

Figure '5'is a side view of a roller representing a succession'of balls.

Figure' 6 is a. corrugated roller.

. Like'lettersrin all the figures indicate the same parts.'

A isa trough-formed holder, having rollers,B B B.

The longitudinal pieces a b bare confined by means of screws, d, seenAin fig. 2, or otherwise, to the end pieces (l C when the holderis made of wood.

The end pieces have bushings, e, for the journalbearings.

The ends ofthe pieces C are rounded, as shown in the drawing, to prevent their catching the clothes or edges of the wash-board.

The rollers B may be of plain cylindrical form, as represented in figs 1, 2, 3, or tinted, as seen vin lig, 4; or theymay be ot' ball-like form, as seen in lig. 5, or corrugated, as in fig. 6, or of any other desirable form.

When ball-like, thc balls of one roller should come between the balls of. the contiguous roller Aor rollers; and when corrugated, the swells of one roller should be brought to the hollows of the next roller.4 The clothes are treated as in hand-washing. They are laid on the wash-board in'three or four thicknesses, and in breadth not great-er than the length of the rubber. The operator then takes hold of the upper end of' the clotheswith one hand and the rubber with the other hand, passing it up and down over the clothes and drawing the latter gradually out of the suds. The dirt is rapidly removed from the clothes,

falling down into the t'nb, whereas in the ordinary use of the wash-board the clothes have to`bc repeatedly Hence, by; y the use of my improvement the clothes are washed Y dipped into the suds to remove the dirt.

much more rapidly than with the wash-board alone, and equally as clean.

\\Vhat 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

rlhe combination of one or more rollers with awater-trough or scoop, the journals of thc roller or rollers turning in the ends ot' the scoop, as and for the purpose set forth and shown.

1n testimony that the above is my invention, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seul this 12th da'y of' November, 1870. Y

ELWOOD R. NORNY. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

STEPHEN Us'rlcxi, THOMAS J. BEWLEY. 

